Livermore News

Street signs will be repainted less often, police response to non-emergencies will be slower and library hours will be fewer under a staggering proposal to scale back city services.

Although opinions were divided about whether more intense commercial uses should be allowed in South Livermore, people at a meeting Nov.

Janice Stompro attacked her breast cancer aggressively after her diagnosis. She underwent a double mastectomy and four months of chemotherapy, crediting the latest technologies with also saving her mother from the disease.

A 30-year-old man was badly beaten by a group of men during a fight at a Livermore transit station on Monday, police said.

A cosmetic surgeon accused of molesting three dozen female patients pleaded not guilty to all counts on Monday.

At a special meeting of the Livermore Board of Education last week, the trustees voted to spend $27,200 to retain the services of The Cosca Group to aid in the search for a new superintendent.

A Livermore man on probation for a federal narcotics conviction was arrested Thursday evening after the Alameda County Narcotics Task Force seized 11 1/2 kilos of powder cocaine with a street value of more than $2 million.

Reporting from Livermore, Calif. - The Energy Department is spending $328 million to clean up two separate areas of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- the agency's largest nuclear-weapons cleanup project in California.

Livermore Lab inks license with Haywarda s Porifera Inc. San Francisco Business Times - by Steven E.F. Brown Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory licensed carbon nanotube technology useful for desalination to Porifera Inc.

"Imagine a train that can whisk you from Stockton to San Jose in about an hour." That enticing hook -- which manages to sound both avant-garde and reminiscent of the exciting, early days of the American railroad at the same time -- appears in a new brochure for the Altamont Corridor Rail Project.

All are invited to the 27th annual Livermore Community Thanksgiving Dinner. The meal will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Nov.

Newly elected Rep. John Garamendi will host his first town hall meeting Thursday.

Hope Hospice offers a Grief Support Group for the Holidays on Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. beginning November 12 and ending January 7. The Support Group will help validate grieving process, provide safety for participants, and provide practical ideas on how to take control during the holidays and find meaningful ways to memorialize loved ones ...

On Thursday, November 5, BART will release its Draft Program Environmental Impact Report for an extension between the Dublin/Pleasanton Station and the City of Livermore.

Livermore Chiropractor uses breakthrough techniques to lower high-blood pressure and treat the most difficult cases of back and neck pain.

Cutting the ribbon at the new landfill gas to liquefied natural gas plant at the Waste Management Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility in Livermore took a lot of hands.

The California High Speed Rail Authority will hold a meeting Tuesday to take public comments on the Altamont Corridor Rail Improvements project.

It will likely take many years and several billion dollars to bring a long sought-after BART extension to Livermore, according to local officials and a newly released environmental document.

HINDU CENTER to HOST FREE HEALTH FAIR: A free health fair will be held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Shiva-Vishnu Temple.

Acknowledging that it will be a "tough sell," Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, introduced legislation Wednesday that he says would cut estate taxes for family farms and small businesses nationwide by more than $233 billion in 2011.